glamour (glamor)

[Also glamor and, more correctly, glamer (the term.- our, -or, falsely simulating the term. prop. so written); Sc. glamer, glamor, glamour, also extended glamerie, glam merie, glaumerie; a var. of gramer, gramere, gramery, gramory, gramarye, enchantment, particular use of ME. gramer, etc., also glomery, grammar: see grammar, gramary, glomery. The word has heretofore been otherwise ex plained: for example (erroneously), as IMG:content-2351.png:[blocks in formation] To her soul All the desert's glamour stole. Whittier , Truce of Piscataqua. Why might not the poor heresiarch plead the illusion and false glamour of his supposed wrong tenets? J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, II. 150. glamour (glam'or), v. t. [ glamour , n.] Το charm; bewitch. We are not quite sure that the Chancellor has not sometimes envied those of his parliamentary foes pre-eminently endowed with the gift of glamouring eloquence. An infuriate glamouring song. Lowe , Bismarck, II. 520. The Academy , April 28, 1888, p. 298. glamoury (glam'o-ri), n. [Prop. glamery ( glam oury being a recent conformation to glamour ); Sc. glamerie, glammerie, glaumerie, etc.: see glamour .] Enchantment: same as glamour . It maun surely be the pithine o' the style, or some bewitching glaumerie that gars fowk glaum at them. Edinburgh Mag . , April, 1821, p. 352. Andrew read it over studiously, and then said, My Lord, this is glammerie . Galt , Sir Andrew Wylie, I. 256. gland With birchen boat and glancing oars. Whittier, Mogg Megone, ii. 3. To look with a sudden rapid directing of the vision; snatch a momentary or hasty view. Then sit again, and sigh, and glance. Suckling , Ballad upon a Wedding. Thy functions are ethereal, As if within thee dwelt a glancing mind, Organ of vision! Words worth , Power of Sound, i. 4. To make an incidental or pa ing reflection or allusion; hint; advert briefly. How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania, Glance at my credit with Hippolyta, Knowing I know thy love to These us? Shak., M. N. D., ii. 2. He had written verse, wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for dulne . Swift . 5. To be deflected and move off in an oblique direction; move obliquely. Some have digged deep, yet glanced by the royal vein. Sir T. Browne , Christ. Mor., ii. 3. The heaviest shot glanced harmle ly from the sides of the a ailing ve els. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xv. II. trans. 1. To cause to shoot or dart, as a ray of light; reflect, as a gleam. The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, glanced back the flame of the lamp. Scott , Red gauntlet, letter iv. ... To glance a gladne round our hearth. W. Colton , Sea and the Sailor, p. 188. 2. To direct rapidly and for a moment, as the eye or the attention. Forgive a moiety of the principal, Glancing an eye of pity on his lo es. IMG:content-2352.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In mining and mineral., the English equiv alent of the German glanz, a term used by German miners to designate various ores po e ing that peculiar luster and color which indicate that they are metalliferous combinations. (hematite, specular iron ore, a sesquioxid of iron), and Such are bleiglanz (galena, a sulphuret of lead), eisenglanz many others. A sharp line cannot be drawn between glanz and kies as used by German miners. The equivalent of the latter in English is pyrites: as, iron pyrites, copper py rites, etc. This word is in common use among both scien tific men and miners; but the word glance as the equivalent of glanz is le frequently heard, although by no means obsolete, since copper - glance, antimony - glance, and other similar names are met with occasionally. glance (glans), v.; pret. and pp. glanced, ppr. glancing. [=Sw.glänsa, shine, = Dan. glindse, glo , glaze, = D. glanzen, glo , = OHG. glanzen, MHG. glenzen, G. glänzen, shine, glitter; from the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To shoot or dart a ray or rays of light or splendor; emit flashes or coruscations of light; flash. But she thereat was wroth, that for despight The glauncing sparkles through her bever glared. Spenser, F. Q., V. vi. 38. Now flashing wide, now glancing as in play, Swift beyond thought the lightnings dart away. Cowper , Truth, 1. 242. The waters of my native stream Are glancing in the sun's warm beam. Whittier, The Norsemen. 2. To gleam of light; be visible for an instant. appear and disappear rapidly, like a Glance to and fro, like aery Sprites To feats of arms addrest! Words worth, Memory. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing Macaulay, Virgin i us. feet. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. Alone, it was the subject of my theme; In company, I often glanced it. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. I will here take leave to glance a few innuendoes. Swift , Tale of a Tub, x. glance-coal (glans'kōl), n. [Tr. G. glanzkohle , glanz , E. glance , + kohle = E. coal .] Any hard, lustrous coal, either anthracitic in character or resembling anthracite. glancingly (glan's ing-li), adv. In a glancing manner; by glancing; in an oblique manner; incidentally. Phrynicus self telleth us also glauncingly that he was timerous and easy to be frayed. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 452.